“Well of course it’s rather jolly to have one’s own research validated, even if it has taken them over a year. I would have been even more impressed with their efforts had they included more charts on the winning formula for the content of the books, but that does involve reading them, you know. Peter Stothard informs me that only the judges do that, not journalists and certainly not book bloggers.

As an Oxbridge man I like nostalgic novels written by Oxbridge men for the Oxbridge men on the judging panel. Who doesn’t?”